I’ve been going to Summit Metro Parks events lately on the weekends and enjoying them. But today I attempted to go to my first weekday event, on gardening, but was turned away due to too many people.
Continue reading post "#3987"problem posts
Due to some compromised Github code signing certificates, I had to downgrade my installed Atom editor to version 1.60.
Continue reading post "#3949"Vagrant network IP change
Apparently, an update to VirtualBox after version 6.1.26 limited the IP’s usable for network adapters on Mac / Linux hosts. They must now be in the 192.68.56.0/21 range, which is pretty limited and much less easy to remember or type than the 10.*.*.* that I had been using. I had to change my projects to all be in this range and spread out the IPs to avoid collisions between the various projects when I updated VirtualBox a while back.
My car exhaust was rattling and making noise for quite some time. I finally fixed it, and it sounds much quieter, and even feels better.
Continue reading post "#3880"Annoying bot and Cloudflare free rate limiting
Some German bot(s) seemed to take interest in one of Cogneato’s sites, Rockin Houston. The aging site is fairly inefficient with a lot of data, and the bot was causing high load on our DB server. I have implemented a PHP blocker for certain IPs, but I wanted something more broadly applicable. I made a rate limiting rule on Cloudflare that should block this type of behavior and prevent it from even hitting our server once the rule triggers.
Continue reading post "Annoying bot and Cloudflare free rate limiting"I was reminded that one shouldn’t proxy non-web servers through Cloudflare (at least on their free plan).
Continue reading post "#3763"I got bit by another tick, this one in my hair. I scratched my head and felt it, then scratched it off and grabbed it. I guess it’s time for my summer haircut.
Continue reading post "#3749"Porkbun DNS was back up by the next morning after being down at least 4 hours on April 24th. The only word I got from Porkbun about the incident was from a ticket I sent them, in which they said they had a DDoS attack on their DNS servers.
Continue reading post "#3734"I got bit by a tick again. Seems to be an annual occurrence now after not having any for most of my life.
Continue reading post "#3731"Porkbun DNS seems to be down and has been so for the last several hours at least. I have added Fastmail nameservers to my NS list so that things work for the moment, since I get that as part of my account there. Can’t for my client though, who I had recommended Porkbun to.